Domingo Mercante

Domingo Mercante (11 June 1898-21 February 1976) was the Governor of Buenos Aires, Argentina from 1946 to 1952 and a leader of the Peronist movement.

Biography
Domingo Mercante was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1898, and he graduated from the Military College in 1919. By the 1940s, he was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Argentine Army, and he took part in the 1943 Argentine coup d'etat against conservative president Ramon Castillo. He became the main liaison between the labor movement and Juan Peron, and he proved central to Peron's achieving political dominance after October 1945. He served as Governor of Buenos Aires from 1946 to 1952, and he was forced to step down by Peron after he was speculated as a possible successor to Peron when his term ended in 1958 (although Peron likely would have amended the constitution to prolong his terms). Mercante assisted in the failed attempts to resist the 1955 coup, and he died in 1976.